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OlgaMaria
2/20/12, 3:34 PM

Modern day slavery

The kind of girls we work with are girls that are taken, stolen, brutally raped and then often sold into brothels and forced to service up to 35 or 40 men a day," she said. "They are sold for money, and it's slavery. It's modern-day slavery.

She related the ghastly story of a young woman from eastern Russia who was one of 60 girls and women duped by a fake employment agency into signing up for non-existent jobs in the Greek islands.

They were crammed into a shipping container, where half of them died en route to Turkey. The survivors were locked in apartments, where men in police uniforms raped them for days.

The victims were put on tiny boats to take them to Greece, but when the Greek coast guard approached, the traffickers tossed most of the women overboard “like excess baggage,” Caine said. They all drowned, she said.

The traffickers got away with five women, who were forced to work in an Athens brothel. Acting on a tip, Greek authorities raided the brothel and rescued the women.

The Russian woman was brought to The A21 Campaign's shelter the next day. She didn't trust Caine or the staff, thinking they, too, might be slick-talking traffickers. She asked why Caine had gotten involved, and Caine told her how the posters in the airport had prompted her to action.

Caine said she was in court recently for the trial of a trafficker. The judge asked the defendant why he engaged in human trafficking. "People are so much easier (to traffic) than drugs," the man replied. "The sentencing is a lot less, and you can just kick them and they'll do what you say."

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Jag läste en annan artikel för några dagar sen där man konstaterade att handel med människor har många fördelar framför handel med knark. Lite knark kan bara säljas en gång, men människor är en förnybar resurs - man kan sälja en kvinna om och om igen, många gånger på en och samma dag.

/ OlgaMaria, sajtvärd på Allergier iFokus

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